CLEAR OUR ARREARS OF SALARIES AND PENSIONS OF RETIREES WITHIN 14 DAYS OR…, EKITI STATE WORKERS THREATEN FAYOSE

Ekiti State workers,
under the aegis of Ekiti State Organized Labour, yesterday, issued a 14-day
ultimatum to Governor Ayo Fayose to pay all arrears of salaries and pensions of
retirees.

This was as the Governor-elect of the state, Dr. Kayode
Fayemi, has advised the outgoing governor to devote the June 2018 federal
allocation of N5.52 billion to the payment of salaries and other entitlements
of workers.

The workers urged Governor Fayose to clear all arrears of
workers’ entitlements before a new government takes office on October 16.

The workers’ demands were contained in a bulletin issued in
Ado-Ekiti and made available to newsmen.

The bulletin reads in part: “Workers in the public service
of Ekiti State have been suffering over the years with nobody to rescue them in
relation to the payment of salaries, pensions and other benefits.

“The import of this is that the condition of service of an
average the worker in Ekiti is deplorable or poor despite the huge funds
allocated to Ekiti State from Federation Account between 2014 to date.

“In view of the present development in the state occasioned
by the result of the governorship election, it has become necessary to assess
the implication on the welfare of workers vis-à-vis the arrears of unpaid
salaries. The state government is hereby given a 14-day ultimatum to meet these
demands.”

Devote June
allocation to payment of salaries

Meanwhile, the governor-elect, Dr. Fayemi, in a statement by
his media Director, Wole Olujobi, called on Governor Fayose to make
accountability and human face critical factors in the policies of his
administration.

Fayemi said: “Information available to us suggests that
Fayose, at the weekend, called all the Directors in the state service to a
meeting in the new Governor’s Lodge, pleading with them not to release
sensitive information to the opposition, including non-disclosure of the
state’s finances.

“But we want to say that the state has received N5.52
billion fresh June federal allocation and we demand that the money be spent to
pay salary, and should not be subjected to the circus of lies and deceits that
often accompanied the sharing of the allocations in the past, whereby local
governments were given their shares in the morning and in the night they would
be coerced to return the money to the governor’s office while local governments
workers remained unpaid for nine months.”

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